On Mean Street, a report on a Vicky Tripony, the former Penn State administrator who clashed with former football coach Joe Paterno. Plus, a preview of Thanksgiving Day's pivotal NFL games.

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I ... yet after Nano ... Wednesday November twenty third and your on means tree ... I'm Evan Newmark ... earlier today a failed auction for German bones ... stock market investors in the US not happy Dow down around two hundred points ... thank heavens ... we of the Wall Street Journal's own teen Wolf here ... to explain ... come on the level of Timo Baidu's and in line with the deadline you know ... you're just back from ... London ... London reasoning London's Matt Phillips of ... your The ... you will look like the blond reporter with an F on reporter for The Wall Street Journal Yeh that's a hit ... you know they don't mistake any does look like Ernest Hemingway ... but he's not ... let's get to that let's let's get to the good stuff yet let's get your London for a few days and now was it was all right Jeff on ... the front bench ... gifts has given him the whole thing Anwar be in a bitter nearly a year you enjoyed all the yet to learn a thing about the European bond markets that wasn't it wasn't for not really into doing too well yes I mean Xperia liquid ... um you from moving higher especially in the short and which was evident in the Spanish auction earlier this week we'll around for a while as the dingoes while the German auction is one that got everyone's attention today so ... I was in a miniseries that the that that that the bonds were offered under two percent and one point nine percent ... sure they offered art two-and-a-half percent Yield none of that that bond auction with the right ... yet know when no one's arguing that Germany can pay its debts and are not without comment that were not read the Daily what's interesting is whether the crisis which is consistent undermining confidence in credit you know ... the the the creditworthy borrowers is getting ... them to the core of that what is the minute you the contagion has reached the corporate checking German bond also I want this to ... you to put up to me ... what that's good news Pfizer next to hide you know Yamamoto Moyes the half glass full to the gut I think it is good news because it's forcing ... Europe to make some hard decisions of the next week or so and so I know weird way what time in a weird way I like the deceleration of the Ducommun lodges say with that ... with that man Philips is a pure Beinner is that the bears ... have been many years ... let me yet ... with the this is my welcome every there was a welcome friend and fellow senior up yet you have a nice ... review from the balcony ... window into account when working ... with a new at the balcony waving to the assembled masses below ... speech now it's interesting but but England's ... is not use the point that I don't think is picked up on ... right well ... inland but great Britain ... and Switzerland are part of the EU right ... they're not part of the eurozone I mean the ... euro ... rules that only seventeen countries of ... of Europe and that's a mean ... and that's huge pointed to it I mean people don't honestly I mean people we don't you're on your your underplayed countries in Europe and the party the euro zone ... but it also want your ... part of the euro and the currency ... you're effectively ceding to write to Premier on my right right ... and so that is one of the real things that has need investors were wary about lending to come ... to countries like ... Italy you were ... in Spain because ... they don't have I get ... even worse case scenario for bond investors ... normally they figure ... force comes a worse the government to spring to mind when will get least get something that they can't do that they can't do that here is the interesting thing I don't know that people ... understand I think ... the ... debt deal as a percentage of total GDP for the euro zone countries are more like eighteen percent ... over a hundred percent in the United thing right ... if you took all the credits combined of the eurozone country ... we can actually running ... lower ... debt as a percentage GDP due to the US ... not that it matters right now IBM is the problem is she said structural yet and we don't and we have a system Gellert the kind words you ... with returns now until the or they don't really have is they don't really have a system where like the naked Mana ties to the world or where countries that are doing very well which are the people going to states and U S subsidize the ones that already say Oh it's the it's not that clear Henry Germans' a candidate I'm disappointed subsidizing the great that he can really blame them and that's it that's the politics show you name ... it after your time in Europe yet are you more optimistic or let less optimistic than when you went there ... Matt Phillips quick answer ... the more out more optimistic Oh my God PM and Philips have and he thinks can you tell them the show played fifth headlines ... stocks were still down the Dow's down about ... the Dow's down between one hundred ninety two under points ... in Trading County down year most of the day ... really is no real reason to be buying stocks so investors are not buying them make is that a ban on Friday China earlier today ... combine that with the ongoing problems in Europe that that's enough to create a pretty bearish market ... second Nokia ... remember Nokia ... once it was the largest fleet the largest phone manufacturer ... cellphone manufacturer in the world no longer ... cutting seventeen thousand jobs if the stock was actually up on the news that the goal ... just what you'd expect but that ... seventeen thousand jobs ... are going to go there ... and in filing comScore ... Thanksgiving headline ... online holiday sales are supposed to be up fifteen percent this year ... I don't think that necessarily means that it's all coming out of a retail ... store ... let's call it that department store another kind of retail outlets ... but on my knees feel the way to go ... and turn into more serious matters ... the Penn State scandal debacle I don't even know what the college a are we going to Rachel ... Rachel Bachmann ... some these were importing coming from Rachel at our colleague Reed Albergotti and others on the ... sports team here to Wall Street Journal ... yet another piece that ran today I'm giving it this ... woman's name on the color misses ... for Pony s â Geekie trip on the strength ... of slag at the Tradeweb and are looking at it that is pretty good break and there isn't there ... of ... here's a snapshot of the heat Ripon she was an administrator Penn State for Number years and ... then she can and ... didn't like some of the way ... some aspects of football program being run in particular ... discipline was being enforced Among ... of key members of the things that you were were wrong either on campus or off campus ... tell us what what today's piece is about there's obviously some bearing views on the teacher pony when she was all about perfect right that's right ... on this this is really about just who she is of the purse and she um you know we we found her and in speaking with various people run the country to be ... very credible to be iam of high integrity ... um that many Edsel who was the coach a Connecticut when she was that the Bok coach and as I could to Maryland ... aam spoke very highly of her said she was very supportive of football and Barrick Wofford is one of the problem is is this is an issue because she levelled seven accusations ... in particular are around some off campus incident that took place in which it was a lot of fighting ... and the UN again correct me from saying anything drunken Joker turnovers like the big deal it is in Alice ... I made the players steady after home games clean up the stadium should be really like like they were in enforcing their own disappointed to miss use ... those accusations come out that's just ten adding to the overall brouhaha at Penn State yet of the social conflicts between current upper turned out was that ... he felt the key to building to handle discipline and houses and some decent control whether his players played or not ... um regardless of what they've done ... on or off campus and she of course felt that they were students like anyone else ... and they should fall under the judicial Affairs process which means that we get in trouble ... the fall the rules that you have to ... take a medicine from the judicial panto is a pretty typical and Division one especially to ... top twenty or top fifteen focal program ... that ... is that a once in a rules for the ... the the the football players and others that are robbing them ... higher all these this apparatus is bureaucratic apparatus to a person in charge of making sure the kid shows up in class and current per person in charge of making sure the Keady properly ... worsening shards of dovetailing the kid appeal and J I mean there are down this whole apparatus and all these things so ... this isn't really a surprise is that what's going on because they know I think the surprising to right the the conventional wisdom is that football players are treated differently at the highest profile schools with a generate the most money in their on TV every week and so on ... I think the difference here is ... that the level of power that coach paternal had breached and to um fall for that we each went ... on in in one instance um with it she confirmed Francois couponing confirmed that um ... grandstand or the former president at Penn State who's since ... then ... fall by the wayside an honest ... onthe told her that essentially internal had said ... she goes for all summer by the University to provide pre strong domain name for for prawn of the race and he read a lot of what exactly and at an for the Redbacks that he was not just for full on key was that it had a champion fighter is approved the librarian all whole some other causes ... and so that was a very real threats and it's really wanna give present wants right ... now ... due on the campus not the last few days but the more they ... wouldn't you know ... get a supply boat with them live on campus ... I mean you know you run the risk in any university that become so heavily identified with ... a personality in this case turn up what with the football program which is very typical of a lot of the schools ... that if something goes wrong they hear ... the Cabinet ... he's a bit you know and five in the air was heavy as five can stay when you were there ... I think it was Shearer utter shock ... and mix in with some whiplash at that that just on the rapid fire succession of bonds in a you had ... that the president and their feet close to forty six years who bombed especially were dismissed the same day and then this is unprecedented rate ... so I'm in their buildings at the University named after Picasso and yes you know it's not ... that he's not like to ... I'm in the school was very much identified with him as an individual very much so you might say that school was more identified ... with ten Oxus is a football coach knows the person ... to a greater extent than any other school is identify with one person in the country ... so the moon was was shock there were some anger there are some backlash in Sydney at ... there were some genuine concern for the victims tonight I attended a Cadillac vigil which was thousands of people ... on this great long holding candles ... ALM so really really was for this cycle of emotions that that change even by the hour right do you think ... of the universe the community ... he's in a league at the Tennessee be on this or the still caught up in the moment ... I mean ... you know yet ... what does that announcer look I don't try this is ... in the end may be good for the University Biggest University will not become so dependent on any individual or any ... certainly not a sports program ... but it seems like there's still so caught up with things can take awhile for the University deal with that I think I think that's the key I don't think anyone knows this could happen a long-term I think this is um this is a grave blow in terms of ... of bought Penn State's reputation in its identity ... but it's too soon to tell you there so much to be home on or about ... who knew what when and of course what will ultimately happen to Jerry Sandusky the man who ... you know just ... keeps on getting more interesting at least ... one of ten years frontier rage on my thank you very much interesting thread reporting ... from the Wall Street Journal ... coming up next ... China ... they're starting to crack down on what you can and can major in ... college ... when Julie Steinberg you discuss that very point ... they all you kids out there ... you think you of our time talking to her mom and dad about what your majoring in ... imagine if the state told you know what we already are major ... that's what's going on in China Julie Steinberg offenders here to talk about it ... Julie happy things here that innings giving Tiana don't like the last time ... I like to walk right it's it's awkward to sit down and when did you you look okay okay you feel feel grounded Rudin Islands limited to energy major in ... University I majored in clinical science and literacy political we're with you can't improve ... today you could they said I could do whatever ... you whenever you want with a foot the bill ... but for the film is covers ... may have outdone the years I wanna go here to China ... China is a patented canceling college majors yet and don't pay ... and in fact I was reading through this ... and China now is basically they're you know ... if you are in a Russian program and China's Shenyang normally University ... that had fifty majors last year now but twenty one but yet again with those programs that they don't pay the money I think they're newly as if they don't work with the news the look and whether or not people are employed by after work and I getting shots and to get something like at less than sixty percent ... are not find a new jobs after it asked you within two years after taking a program ... that pays out those majors of schools cost but the China Daily Fino biology majors now that I've read that ... the real outlier than the mere idea listened really faulty logic re because you look the plays like GE shopper example which is ... in the headlines ... tend to turn into a ... notebook and Inzamam run in with you stand a good example right that they're always looking for kids of the bloc's backgrounds so what you do doesn't necessarily correlate with what you're going with what you study isn't necessarily good internal Yukio ... so I think it's a little Baldt's and I were to get rid of that ... this entire broad sweep in trying to find a lot of the education Chinese state fund yes the fun the university education ... since they can basically do whatever it wants to do ... what I found interesting was that what the are really focused on is they don't feel like they getting enough innovation ... in the Chinese economy ... which would seem keen to attend when credence to your point that his son is only the person who studies computer science that is necessarily the most innovative in the encouraging creativity across to matter what major your in your up and up Steve Johnson is inherent in ... our press articles on the fly tying up with all it's nothing ever really smart is population they have the capacity to work hard and get why haven't they produce innovators is because you know when you see funded education that's not we didn't hear goat a twenty person the right time is the new jobs with the drop helped in every college propping up very liberal are right to university ... bill Gates was the dropping of the from Harvard ... these are not too shall pass ... Evan Newmark identity Russian Soviet studies you know I went on to Wall Street and looking out not look at me now a senior review day before Thanksgiving came and saying ... it broke again tied to the audience elected if I don't know if they do but let's let's go back to our do you think this will pay off for Chinese Indians ... no ... no you don't think so you think the Chinese should determine ... where we are high school ... the major issues that I think it's well but the other way you can attend device kids Towanda studied Yelp math science engineering pillars of the main ones that you know the US is trying to get our own kids a study has had on society psychology these days and I agree it there's a very serious problem ... but I don't think coming cracking down on estimate of down is the way to address it I think you one deal for bike uses incentives to study of things and get people tieup will pay for your chance to look for ... a twelve month it would be the result if the US only funded student loans ... if the Blazers in hard sciences like engineering map ... citing what he thing ... out huge ... you to get the outrageous ideas but I was when the outrage itno area ... occupying Congress which ... I'm ... by the way I like like that I ... need to underperform ... I don't know how to combine profit ideas don't know if if you want to study critical theory literature ... that this notion of divine name which you say that I did there was a statement that Julie Steinberg have a happy Thanksgiving thanks for coming up ... next ... Jon Friedman ... John Freeman is going to tells all about ... I'm sorry Julie Julie trying to ... cripple our next guest ... Jon Friedman is going to come on exhaust all about his own one-year anniversary with is Ifo ... busily call a puff pieces will we call it ... a soft piece right now will what you're doing it he alleges Cuban immigrant stories I'm I will update affair with my life everyday predicament guide the yuan and that he had with him ... on the move with the UN did not want a piece of data about the phone and until the end of its okay we don't we don't we don't need to get ... with any get the Apple any more advertising than they need or ... are ... they Ardi have ... so you describe is allowed in relation to ... its Antony haven't read the piece ... that is more a love hate affair with eighteen T which is actually are provided for in eighteen T is not easy to work with that with Apple customer it was ... the drop down school classroom assignment I had this is not on the genitals of Macau was fifth revenue in the fall was working perfectly items to happen ever was is pointing to me you get dropped but that's that's not you know that it's in part that I would argue it's impart the Ifo fault and not ... just that disclaimer my wife works for Gool but I do have an article easily or not ... um ... the ... the I phone is as the phone ... is a great as the device for us is that as the phone I and what he's like in a ten dollar Samsung jobs for for a number of years and purely using phone device at things the better ... only to NEI Island to ... get on the other day I found out my I phone guess what happened ... I gotta I cannot was on a call ... you know and I got the call but then it turned out in an open call it was like a half hour the call was running ... Solix of answering machine ... is running an allegedly ITA is so interesting ... so fascinate selling his stake with the I phone with him deal about it ... I in Sydney and funnelled which was to improve the phone service called I Phones on Icahn who are ... read by this school I Phones for a pretty important to Apple ... wreckage it but you need to maybe she just change providers are you you think you're thinking about it I think if they think about how no doubt get baby wanted tried again my wife works and ruminations from an Android phone ... the nation to make up little bit of the family ... was entitled to his earlier in the merger ever does but it but you know you might wanna try given that year you have a love hate affair ... you'd always better level of love affair just wasn't fair to say ... it's it's possible they think that big Thanksgiving common LP are ... the Guinea get nice and juicy gossip going into things getting anything going on with the buzz in the world media and you see Jerry Seinfeld and Kelly show the morning ... now ... I'm not I'm not going to bomb away with Jerry Seinfeld on the show what is what Kelly rampant this ... now you know cookies in their temporary replacement for regions right ... I did not get a phone call from Kelly ... this is our I can ... tell that to my ... this is the guy right here Calumet in ... Hindi can you believe you know aside from not doing it ... that that the phone and who who uses ... reducing the ... going out to me just comment my produce rising a I think he did the whole show with the economics more politics move government and in the new Mean Street meets Kelly wrap up now what what was your take have you watched it more than once and what was the last two and three ... two and three among the prom is a dynamic fusion commentaries going soft on this ... very old Seinfeld as from TV show was cut to his conduct and very costly his old age yet he ... added that he does segments cooking segments what it what they do on the show while ... it is more his mother Jones he's telling the brief is that it is a family man now OK I may not have a shot at ... the show killing rippled what about the TD Bank commercials ... is is is is read is looking to give up on those also are Ameican Abele are getting too much money the money ... yet again I can get somebody maybe I can shoot up among the half ... on the ... edge of the ... John frame the US giving them ... love hate affair with Kelli Ripper ... coming up next year all the days got of getting things given football preview ... the ... tomorrow ... maybe the best Thanksgiving slate of NFL games ever ... and here to give us a preview ... no no one else there and ... sports blogger ... and also ... the writer for the Deal Journal Shira over day ... by the way and I've promised Shira to win it on the merger podcasts on my hands but the puck is un plug and tell tell people Reed Albergotti the Graetz re Albergotti and I will post an NFL podcast every Tuesday available on the Pichette com slashed sports OK well it's of Mark ounce mark as a cashier knows a lot of football ... I can anyone claim to know ... the tenth of what you know about football and the lights before we get to the Thanksgiving indices talk about ... the Patriots because I know that every publicly ... the victory of the cheese ... what I was a great I had some questions about the Chiefs' heading into the concern about the casting and again and see what the defences vigor them out but if you think they don't get on the Super Bowl right ... they could ... OK let's get that tomorrow's game and a free gig as first to get a green Bay versus Detroit I doubt it said that the real thing a bit of a Midwest in the clash of Midwest and Mr. although on Cincinnati Bengals Kansai Pearlies so when I did mean what would he like why I like Green Bay they're they're undefeated so far this season ... it's super hard times when the NFL the sixteen NL but ... hackers they like to have a good chance by either the headlines for real align yourself with reliability focuses on the off as Matthew Stafford the quarterback and Megatron their star wide receiver but is it that having a really good time in the desert Alan Johnson ... he's known as the Megatron ... but the antisense in Detroit is this that ... is the Sets del stout hearted men except not last week about Lisbon Dublin not against Green Bay adding that I'll wear that you get the truly great at the tree at Detroit's ... Ford field ... Ford field ... yes coming House Miami Dallas the second game segmenting are usually my Miami now looking to the beginning of the year at ... ten thirty am the answer little small Renaissance against Dallas Dallas is looking better yet ... amid the thing about Dallas's that they're in this NFC East which just seems totally wacky I had no idea who's going away and then Philadelphia look good for a lot of it looked terrible the Giants they look good for little while at the heart of the ... US the US the scene rain parody of of of folklore another ... hilarity and footballs and it means that the disease does mean you get a lot of teams run around with three losses for losses CNO heated may qualify to sit down six and four it looks like one tree when which would be looking for ... I e you a pressure a pressure on Tony Romo pressure on China Romo for shore and on to watch Matt Moore Tuesday after the two quarterbacks get the deal if it does indeed Italy that human OK now that they ... think is the last one the began today with Jason ... the last one because I'm on what you like yet this can be a good sense of games and forty nine ers Ravens Battle of the Harbottle brothers exactly which is in a GMR body coach of the Ravens John our body ... serve reverse ... the higher the brothers aged head coaches guidance of their and their ego ... there's John and what the other ones in on tonnage and John and Jim yet as with any get people like me love these brotherly match up straight the Bryan brothers so ... in ... in in New York and Dallas and now the hard ... thinking right ... I think for cancer to win this one I mean the big dance the Battle of Greek defences ... the forty Niners defense I think as much as people are talking about them now I think they're under it right now the ball to Baltimore the Ravens usually the Fed ... did he forget problems you know the joke like a family eyeing ... the hot and cold on drew flak now I'm sometimes he seems rate another son to looks really confused I just don't know which are flat and show up ... now ... week twelve of fantasy football of shares making the center guess that means I don't you know ... I don't I'm not a big believer in in ... facilitating all this gambling that goes on the fantasy football to ... lead the outlook PST just ... based on your own family experience ... is you love football what he intended to mark again and again a ... focus on the games and you make excuses knew no one is spend any time the problem doesn't work I'll friends I really I'm not with the family to some family friends ... don't know what the sports fans and non sport every she was going to be in ... so I may have to catch the games later ... now than you think it's polite and except we just talked about the etiquette my guess is a polite to go over to somebody else ... and say ... you know ... I think you know I know I'm only sinew twice the last ten years ... is there a bedroom somewhere that I can go watch the games is at a later impolite I think it's actually pretty rooms and betting on how well you know the people and ... I am not going to do that just in my mother's watching I will not be that were sought on thinking that that may be a very honest when I think I think honesty should be the foundation of a good Thanksgiving and I think that the cunning of Brinson flowers maybe soften the blow unit ... here are the driver and Tuesday new cable TV you ... may even better fee of DirecTV you don't have the need ... to use the initial fall on your house ... I'd yet yet do we need we need ish correction ... in order to it so that there's not ... I'm not too much communications on the eyes of over fifty are what you come over to the Lockyer's of the back office with me you know we can watch ... Shira over day ... don't forget to check out her Qantas finally ... my commentary for the day ... it's on Thanksgiving which for me like many of you is my favorite national holiday ... I can quite figure out why I'm such a soft spot for Thanksgiving ... I probably watched too many whole Mark greetings card Thanksgiving day specials when I was a kid which you know this FALSEST Alger ... but I'm sure all says something to do with coming from a Brooklyn immigrant family with having big Thanksgiving celebrations ... in my childhood and also ... with living much of my adult life overseas ... with Thanksgiving was not celebrated ... strangely a couple of my fondest Thanksgiving memories ... come from my Thanksgiving was ... which I celebrated in Moscow Russia of all places ... most of all I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because we Americans are unlucky people ... and on this day we take the time to consider just how lucky we are ... lucky their parents or grandparents great great grandparents are beyond ... made the same journey that the pilgrims made about three and for many years ago ... and lucky that our parents grandparents great grandparents were there were no never ... were able to make a home for themselves ... just as the Peltonen Stadium is very lame ... Thanksgiving is calling for all Americans ... because all of us are immigrants among way another ... and we of all discovered and built a home for ourselves here ... in America ... now in spite of how messed up our nation is a make no ... mistake we of the very midst of a nation ... living in America is still a very great privilege ... and I for one of the ever thankful ... I'm thankful of course to my family and to my friends thankful to my colleagues here the Wall Street Journal ... thankful in particular the people ... Jr Joann my produces everybody else ... in fact there will make ... the Shelby Street possible ... I'm especially thankful to those of you the viewers to take time out of your day to watch me ... happy Thanksgiving to you ... we won't be around but they'll be a special show on Friday ... Simon Constable in for another great weekend ...